A man convicted of using digital-age tools to impersonate and malign his father’s academic rivals on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls was sentenced Monday to two months in jail after the state’s highest court tossed out some of his convictions—and with them, an aggravated-harassment law.
Raphael Golb was re-sentenced by Criminal Court Judge Laura Ward on misdemeanor criminal impersonation and forgery charges that the Court of Appeals upheld, even as it nixed his felony identity-theft conviction and declared the aggravated harassment law unconstitutional in People v. Golb, 2014 NY Slip Op 03426.
